I feel that’s not fair to some of the engineers at SpaceX. A prior head of NASA is quoted multiple times saying reusable first stages would be impossible, only 5-10 years before SpaceX landed 2 falcon heavy first stages simultaneously. Space is hard. A lot of test and production space vehicles do explode. Several of the challenger missions for example. Clearly Elon is a rube, but that doesn’t imply everyone under him is… So maybe just try to make your point without disrespecting and disregarding the work of some of the brightest engineers on the planet?
A prior head of NASA is quoted multiple times saying reusable first stages would be impossible, only 5-10 years before SpaceX landed 2 falcon heavy first stages simultaneously.
It is hard, yet the space shuttle program did just fine and didn’t burn 3 billion dollars of tax payer money for spacex to say “well, it got off the launch pad before exploding, success!”
No hate to the engineers there, i’m sure any good they do is overshadowed by the nazi drug addict that employees them.
The space shuttle is literally the deadliest space vehicle to ever exist. And (adjusted for inflation) cost 1.5 billion dollar per launch … what are you even talking about?
135 missions, only 3 failures with a total of 14 astronauts dead.
Yeah … that is bad. In fact, the worst track record for any manned space vehicle.
Also the comparison to Starship is stupid as it’s still in development. And Falcon 9 already beats the shuttle in everything but raw payload capacity. Hell, so did the Soyuz.
I feel that’s not fair to some of the engineers at SpaceX. A prior head of NASA is quoted multiple times saying reusable first stages would be impossible, only 5-10 years before SpaceX landed 2 falcon heavy first stages simultaneously. Space is hard. A lot of test and production space vehicles do explode. Several of the challenger missions for example. Clearly Elon is a rube, but that doesn’t imply everyone under him is… So maybe just try to make your point without disrespecting and disregarding the work of some of the brightest engineers on the planet?
And were they reused?
Yes, both B1023 and B1025 had flown before when they flew as the FH side boosters, so they were reused
It is hard, yet the space shuttle program did just fine and didn’t burn 3 billion dollars of tax payer money for spacex to say “well, it got off the launch pad before exploding, success!”
No hate to the engineers there, i’m sure any good they do is overshadowed by the nazi drug addict that employees them.
The space shuttle is literally the deadliest space vehicle to ever exist. And (adjusted for inflation) cost 1.5 billion dollar per launch … what are you even talking about?
135 missions, only 3 failures with a total of 14 astronauts dead. Spacex had 9 launches and 5 failed.
Yeah … that is bad. In fact, the worst track record for any manned space vehicle.
Also the comparison to Starship is stupid as it’s still in development. And Falcon 9 already beats the shuttle in everything but raw payload capacity. Hell, so did the Soyuz.
Falcon 9 is only partially reusable, it is not a reusable vehicle, only the booster. Can’t really compare it to the space shuttle.
Neither was the space shuttle, so they are totally comparable
And even the reusable parts if the shuttle needed extensive and lengthy maintenance to fly again, something the falcon 9 has vastly improved upon.